Women's Literature from 1960 to the Present: Representative Works
WOMEN'S LITERATURE FROM 1960 TO THE PRESENT: REPRESENTATIVE WORKS
Denise Chávez
The Last of the Menu Girls (short stories) 1986
Face of an Angel (novel) 1994
Florence (play) 1949
Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White (play) 1966
Wine in the Wilderness (play) 1969
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (novel) 1973
Frank Chin
Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers [editor, with others] (anthology) 1974
Hélène Cixous
Dedans [Inside] (novel) 1969
La Jeune née [with Catherine Clément; The Newly Born Woman] (essays) 1975
Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (essays) 1976
Holy the Firm (essays) 1977
Teaching a Stone to Talk (essays) 1982
Arranged Marriage (short stories) 1995
The Mistress of Spices (novel) 1997
Rosalyn Drexler
The Line of Least Existence and Other Plays (plays) 1967
The Cosmopolitan Girl (novel) 1974
Second Class Citizen (novel) 1974
The Bride Price (novel) 1976
Maria Irene Fornes
The Widow (play) 1961
Fefu and Her Friends (play) 1977
The Conduct of Life (play) 1985
Rebecca Gilman
The Land of Little Horses (play) 1992
The Glory of Living (play) 2001
Joy Harjo
She Had Some Horses (poetry) 1983
In Mad Love and War (poetry) 1990
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (poetry) 1994
Beth Henley
Crimes of the Heart (play) 1979
The Debutante Ball (play) 1985
Gish Jen
Mona in the Promised Land (novel) 1996
Who's Irish?: And Other Stories (short stories) 1999
Fruits & Vegetables (poetry) 1971
Fear of Flying (novel) 1973
Half-Lives (poetry) 1973
Any Woman's Blues (novel) 1990
Sappho's Leap (novel) 2003
Adrienne Kennedy
Funnyhouse of a Negro (play) 1962
A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White (play) 1976
People Who Led to My Plays (autobiography) 1987
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (novel) 1976
China Men (nonfiction) 1980
Obasan (novel) 1981
The Rain Ascends (novel) 1995
The Black Unicorn (poetry) 1978
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (memoir) 1982
Anchee Min
Red Azalea (memoir) 1994
Katherine (novel) 1995
The Bluest Eye (novel) 1970
Sula (novel) 1973
Song of Solomon (novel) 1977
Beloved (novel) 1987
The Tiger's Daughter (novel) 1972
The Middleman and Other Stories (short stories) 1988
The Holder of the World (short stories) 1993
Rochelle Owens
Futz (play) 1965
Chucky's Hunch (play) 1981
The Bell Jar (novel) 1963
Ariel (poetry) 1965
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (short stories) 1965
The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977 (poetry) 1978
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988-1991 (poetry) 1991
Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 (poetry) 1995
Wendy Rose
Bone Dance: New and Selected Poems, 1965-1993 (poetry) 1994
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf: A Choreopoem (play) 1975
Boogie Woogie Landscapes (play) 1979
Mary Tallmountain
There is no Word for Goodbye (poetry) 1981
The Joy Luck Club (novel) 1989
The Hundred Secret Senses (novel) 1995
The Bonesetter's Daughter (novel) 2001
Megan Terry
Calm Down Mother: A Transformation Play for Three Women (play) 1965
Viet Rock: A Folk War Movie (musical) 1966
Approaching Simone (play) 1970
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (short stories) 1981
The Color Purple (novel) 1982
Mitsuye Yamada
Camp Notes and Other Poems (poetry) 1976
Hisaye Yamamoto
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (short stories) 1988